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Repair cafe funding for Oxfordshire successful!

The bid for funding for Oxfordshire Repair Cafes has been approved so there will be a small amount of funding for each event plus a lot of centralised resources including support in electrical repairs from Bicester Green.Sustainable Wallingford plan to start their repair cafe in April 2018 alongside the April swapshop.

Concerns about excessive consumption, waste generation, and resource depletion are
rising in the United Kingdom and across the world. Many European countries are running out of
space for landfills and public opposition to incinerators is growing. In response, many countries
have developed various programs and policy to minimize waste generation by encourage
materials reduction, reuse and recycling. In a similar vein, the Repair Café Foundation was
created in order to encourage people to fix their broken items instead of throwing them away. A
repair café is an event where attendees can bring old or damaged belongings to be potentially
fixed by volunteer specialists for free. In addition to fixing the item, the specialists explain the
fixing process, one-on-one, to the owners so that they can hopefully repair it themselves in the
future.